A bridge too far!

 Earlier this week, the Canadian media reported on the materials published in a recent Special Edition of the publicly-funded Canadian Military Journal – Revue militaire canadienne [CMJ] which now often greets readers with insights and recommendations for ‘meaningful military culture change”. The Special Edition [Vol 23 No 3 -Summer 2023] contains seven research articles on Canadian Military Culture on such esoteric subjects as "“Interrogating Whiteness and Power in the CAF.”  

On January 9, 2024, an Opinion Piece  written by Brian Lilley, a veteran political columnist with the TORONTO SUN, concluded that this Special Edition indicates that the Department of National Defence is: “obsessed with the blaming all issues in the Military (in particular the current low recruiting and retention rates) on “patriarchy, colonialism, white supremacy, heteronormativity, ableism and classism.”  Lilley was also critical of the researchers:  “None of these researchers attempts to understand military culture, they simply seek to attack it using critical race theory and other discredited academic pseudo-social science theories. . . .He went on: "The military brass needs to retract these documents, apologize for them, and then do the real work needed to secure change.”

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Of note, the CMJ is considered by the Canadian Armed Forces as being "a strategic media asset and the flagship publication of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces fostering intellectual debate on defence and security issues." It is lavishly produced on lustrous and glossy photographic paper with high quality print. Très chic.